Breathtakingly corrupt.
Dismantle it completely, remove and inspect every single piece, then rebuild it, while considering all modifications and equipment necessary to make it into an “Air Force One-worthy” plane…
Even if it isn’t a Trojan Horse, it will be a poisoned gift as best, wasting even more taxpayer money if there’s an attempt to convert it.
I’m pretty sure they do that anyway. I read once that Air Force One, or the planes they use for Air Force One rather, are routinely taken apart completely. Like every 6 months maybe. I don’t remember the exact time frame but it was pretty regularly.
Obvious horrors of rampant corruption aside, this is great. Either he uses it right away and it’s full of bugs, or it gets retrofitted and he deals with the bad pr, which will at least upset him even though it won’t unseat him. On top of that, he may die before it’s done(fingers crossed).
That’s a sacrifice Lord Fuckwad is willing to make.
Why are we still using 747s as Air Force One?
I get that it’s an iconic aircraft and it has the cool little upstairs part. But Boeing sucks now and the 747 is like 8 generations behind modern aircraft. It was first introduced in 1968.
Contact Bombardier and Lear and ask for the biggest jets they make. IDK, maybe it will be cramped in there. Maybe do like a space-program-style investment in some kind of US company that can still make airplanes that are good airplanes.
Contact Lockheed Martin. Start with a military cargo aircraft as the base, and just make the inside nice. IDK, maybe that means it will be ugly.
There has to be some way that the US can produce aircraft we can be proud of still. Right?
They should just have a standard conversion module for B-52, would work for centuries.
Small nation: Why are you sending us a strategic bomber? Is Trump coming to visit? Please reply quickly
US: Wait and see 😇
Also very impractical:
They actually did make something sort of like your Frankenstein creation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_Stratolaunch
Also, in other news, I had no idea what a behemoth the Spruce Goose had been.
- Bronze medal: Antonov An-225
- Silver medal: HOWARD HUGHES AND A WHOLE CITY’S WORTH OF LUMBER YARDS AND A DREAM, WE USED TO BE ALIVE IN THIS COUNTRY
Yes, I member the Stratolaunch!
And the other wacky one, the flying wing, never got any of the huge concept (especially passenger) realised.
YB-35/49 was basically the biggest (50m wingspan).
Northrop_YB-49WE USED TO SING SONGS, WE USED TO SEE VISIONS
Or buy an Airbus ;-)
If only there was a way to buy European goods without having to pay taxes on it at the border 🤔
I mean that would mean we’d have to take place on the world stage as an equal partner, instead of pretending we’re super capable and we’re still the best in the world at everything and we can do it ourself just like a big boy.
IOW, unacceptable
I’m sure they will be getting started immediately.
But he’ll want to use it immediately too, it has gold toilets he can shit in on his way to his next golf tournament! /s
just how many bugs there would be jb this plane too
i know, right? sometimes i wonder if it is even worth bugging trump, though, since he just blabs his stupid ideas all the time.
Literally everything I know about Air Force One is from fiction or non-technical reporting.
I came up with a dozen good technical reasons about how stupid the idea when I first heard about it.
I’m sure actual experts are having strokes over how bad an idea this is.
Not even talking about the bribery, just logistical reasons why it’s idiotic.
All of them. I expect nothing less.
Or, absolutely none, which would make it even more devious.
When I saw the headline my first thought was “wait, the cost of a single VC-25 is $400m, what the absolute fuck” but they mention that right there in the article.
Goddamn.
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